No one will surely join up this team.If i am that smart person i would rather solve it for myself and will get that 300 Bitcoins on my own without the need of dividing into other people.
Sounds too greedy but if you can actually do it on your own then its normal for people to choose up that way and besides you wont even have the guarantee that you would get the shares once the prize is being distributed.
So, if the puzzle had been solved by your team i assume you are the one who would collect those coins? No one would trust you up.
Except you are hardly gonna solve the really hard ones alone, also, it's part of the fun to do it with someone else. Some of these puzzles take years to solve. Let's see you keep going when you feel you are stuck.
if the puzzle is actually solvable then it should not take "years" to solve it and so far all the puzzles that are being created are either unsolvable which means they will remain like that unless the creator moves the funds himself or are being solved in less than a month.
the only case where the puzzle was solved years later was when the puzzle was created back when price was very low so there was no incentive to bother solving it at the time (imagine a puzzle with 100 satoshi today!) but with price rise it became valuable so people started working on it and solved it.
Thats right but i dont remember any puzzle games that do have very small prize inside it which usually do have some reasonable prize as the contest/puzzle game started.It
may do took long before it gets solve due to difficulty until the time comes that the prize amount in usd soar up high.
@Desmond, you got the point on solving problems together and enjoyable since you can have some help from others but for the sake of big money you cant just trust anyone.